Minnesota · Public charity
Wild Compass Environmental Education
Wild Compass is an enviromental learning center providing educational programs thorugh southwest Minnesota. The primary focus of the Wild Compasss programming is through field trips with area schools.
- $163k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $144k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $49,924
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $368k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Wild Compass Environmental Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $144k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $86k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mankato Community Education and Rec | $126,399 | 5 | n/a |
| South Central Service Cooperative | $65,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Project G E M | $47,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Mankato Area 77 Lancers Marching Band Parents Association Inc | $31,970 | 3 | 54% |
| Isd #2895 - Jackson County Central | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Childrens Museum of Southern Minnesota | $23,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heron Lake Caring Connections | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Community Action Partnership Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council · Glen a Taylor Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wild Compass Environmental Education
- How much does Wild Compass Environmental Education give?
- Wild Compass Environmental Education reported 5 itemized grants totaling $143,924, out of $162,979 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Wild Compass Environmental Education fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (26%), Education (26%), Arts & Culture (25%).
- Who are Wild Compass Environmental Education's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Mankato Community Education and Rec ($126k), South Central Service Cooperative ($65k), Project G E M ($47k).
- Does Wild Compass Environmental Education fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wild Compass Environmental Education?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Glen a Taylor Foundation.
- Where is Wild Compass Environmental Education based?
- Wild Compass Environmental Education is based in MN.
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